European Union arms embargo on Saudi Arabia

Typical scumbag 'nasty party' putting money ahead of principles. The scumbag 'nasty party' MEP's were not prepared to vote in favour of an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia, notwithstanding they condemned the Saudi state over the murder of the Khashoggi. These scumbags are despicable!!!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/c...-a8601591.html

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Have I missed something here? Khasshogi wasn't apparently slain by a £100m Typhoon fighter, so how is a ban on selling them to Saudi going to stop a repeat?

Like it or not Saudi Arabia is a very important ally to the West, and is of paramount importance to curbing the ambitions of such as Iran and Syria, so alienating such an important relationship over their domestic arrangements would be futile and ultimately self defeating in political terms, as well as endangering thousands of well paid and highly skilled jobs here in the UK, which seems to be of little importanceto you.

Pragmatism must trump principle sometimes.

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[QUOTE=Barry;1552903]Have I missed something here? Khasshogi wasn't apparently slain by a £100m Typhoon fighter, so how is a ban on selling them to Saudi going to stop a repeat?

Like it or not Saudi Arabia is a very important ally to the West, and is of paramount importance to curbing the ambitions of such as Iran and Syria, so alienating such an important relationship over their domestic arrangements would be futile and ultimately self defeating in political terms, as well as endangering thousands of well paid and highly skilled jobs here in the UK, which seems to be of little importanceto you.

Pragmatism must trump principle sometimes.[/QUOTE]


Bloody typical scumbag 'nasty party' philosophy - money ahead of any principles whatsoever!!!

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All politicians have to look out for their own people .
Saudi Arabia executes people every Friday so it's nothing new .
What is new is that this man was murdered in a ( bugged)consulate

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Another one who is unprincipled!!! Don't ever talk to me about zionist principles or peace ever again!!!

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Oh go and check on the pie stocks !
And you are wearing out he word Zionist it's getting yawn making .
Principles are not cheap .
As someone pointed out the man was not killed by some high tech weaponry .

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And you know this for a fact??? - were you there???

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No nor were you but the Turkish bugging system was.
People have been murdering others from the dawn of time without the benefit of anything high tech.

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And which method did they use???

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[QUOTE=Uncle Joe;1552917] I so love how you would risk so many livelihoods on your point of principle, so where were your principles when your hero Joe Stalin was murdering millions of his own citizens? Hypocrite....